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Seeplateau: View from Alte Landstrasse with artwork. Photo: © Michele Nastasi Photographie
When architecture becomes an expedition KSA Kyncl Schaller Architekten is an internationally operating architectural and design office with locations in Zurich and Stuttgart. They combine more than 40 years of experience in planning, realising and developing diverse building tasks. The results are innovative buildings that are more than mere eye-catchers.
such as one for the ‘City of flowers’, one of the most important new construction projects in Latvia’s capital of Riga.
TEXT: NANE STEINHOFF
KSA Kyncl Schaller Architekten plan, develop and realise projects of all kinds –
“Each project is like an expedition,” smiles Peter Kyncl, who manages the architectural office alongside Günther Schaller. He continues:“We know where we want to go but not which course the journey will take. We work processually with an open end and try to find the right solution for the respective task and the specific location.” On the one hand, KSA Kyncl Schaller Architekten work with young colleagues who bring zeitgeist to the office and on the other, with very experienced professionals that cater for the orderly flow.“Furthermore, we want to be regionally rooted and internationally staffed at the same time,” says Kyncl. Comprehensive know-how Since 2006, the office has worked under the leadership of Kyncl and Schaller. Both architects come with long-standing expe110 | Issue 73 | April 2019
rience in realising projects in the DACH region and abroad. Their friendship turned into a partnership to meet the demands of architecture and urban development and to offer clients comprehensive knowhow in all architectural areas. “We look at things from different positions. We collect impressions, form opinions, discuss and reject. We also like to include artists and other non-architects who can see the things differently. After all, architecture is supposed to be building art and needs this creative process,” explains Schaller. This clearly distinguishes KSA Kyncl Schaller Architekten’s approach from other architectural offices. No wonder then, that the office has quickly won its first national and international competitions soon after its foundation –
High-quality residential constructions
Seeplateau: Lake view, attic flat. Photo: © Michele Nastasi Photographie
Seeplateau: Art from Tadashi Kawamata. Photo: © Michele Nastasi Photographie